Tune of the Week // Joshua Luke Smith // Jack of Spades

There are some times when you meet people, they just give off a vibe, there’s something special about them.

Before this week, I had never heard of Joshua Luke Smith. My day job is working in a media company and part of my job is to record the audio for videos for our Unsigned show which is broadcast on our two radio stations.

So, on Thursday, there was a tube strike in London, we weren’t sure if the recording would go ahead. Joshua arrived and did an interview for the show, then myself and Adam, who was doing the cameras, went to our little studio to record everything.

We set up and Joshua is going to perform a solo unaccompanied version of his song ‘Carry Me’ taken from his new EP, ‘Your Beauty’. I get a vocal level and Adam has the cameras set up. We go for a take and Joshua nails in in one take. It literally takes less than five minutes and he spits words and rhymes so easily, it’s like something illegal.

I go back to my desk and check out Joshua’s EP. I see the Jack Green directed video for Jack of Spades, the production, the delivery, the words, come together for something magical.

Joshua Luke Smith is an artist to make you sit up and take notice. Now, I stumbled across him unexpectedly and he made me take notice, I’ll pass it on. If you like what you hear, pass it on. He needs to be heard.

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Nessy is an Irish media creative living in LDN. She presents The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM and is a freelance podcast producer and social media manager. Her spare time is spent writing the pages of this blog. She likes Lyons Gold Blend Tea and dislikes writing about herself in the third person.